Dukomo JD beckwith replica
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 8:42 am
Hi all
I thought I would share with you my latest toy car resto i have always loved the yokomos so naturally wanted one of these since first seeing Duals on here way back when and then DJ gonzos, so now I have one I thought I would show you all some pics. Having done a bit of research on these (there's not much out there) I can say this is a fairly complete car with pretty much all the dukomo options that were available at the time and would have been quite an expensive bit of kit as you would have started with a works 91-92 or 93 and would have bought all the extras one at a time as I don't think there was one conversion kit with everything in it? But anyway if you had the money you would have had a car that would of really stood out from the usual yokomos and lazers of the time as well as a pretty strong lightweight racer. I built it to be period correct for late 93 and I am thinking that would have been about the end of its life from a race point of view as the yokomo worlds 93 wcs was kind of out in small numbers and very soon to be replaced by the yz10 which took over pretty much the whole 4wd scene for 94-96 until the losi xx4 came about. This car has a real nice quality about it and I my opinion a much better car than the standard yokomo and I guess that is the point of it not just bling factor but a real weapon in the right hands as was shown at the 93 worlds where it made the A main in the hands of its creator.
I thought I would share with you my latest toy car resto i have always loved the yokomos so naturally wanted one of these since first seeing Duals on here way back when and then DJ gonzos, so now I have one I thought I would show you all some pics. Having done a bit of research on these (there's not much out there) I can say this is a fairly complete car with pretty much all the dukomo options that were available at the time and would have been quite an expensive bit of kit as you would have started with a works 91-92 or 93 and would have bought all the extras one at a time as I don't think there was one conversion kit with everything in it? But anyway if you had the money you would have had a car that would of really stood out from the usual yokomos and lazers of the time as well as a pretty strong lightweight racer. I built it to be period correct for late 93 and I am thinking that would have been about the end of its life from a race point of view as the yokomo worlds 93 wcs was kind of out in small numbers and very soon to be replaced by the yz10 which took over pretty much the whole 4wd scene for 94-96 until the losi xx4 came about. This car has a real nice quality about it and I my opinion a much better car than the standard yokomo and I guess that is the point of it not just bling factor but a real weapon in the right hands as was shown at the 93 worlds where it made the A main in the hands of its creator.
